WRITER

Mikhail Bulgakov

1891 - 1940

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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf]; 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He is also known for his novel The White Guard; his plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins; and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Bulgakov has received more than 1,926,806 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Mikhail Bulgakov is the 230th most popular writer (down from 142nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 13th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Mikhail Bulgakov is most famous for his novel, The Master and Margarita.

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  • 90

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  • 4.41

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  • 6.33

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Notable Works

Belai︠a︡ gvardii︠a︡
1969
D'yavoliada
1925
Sobranie Sochinenii
1983
Ivan Vasil'evich
1964
Don Kikhot =
1971
Sobranie sochinenii v pyati tomakh
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 230 out of 7,302. Before him are Torquato Tasso, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Prosper Mérimée, Dario Fo, Herman Melville, and Snorri Sturluson. After him are Shams Tabrizi, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jaroslav Hašek, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 6. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, B. R. Ambedkar, and Sergei Prokofiev. After him are Walter Model, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, Edith Stein, James Chadwick, and John Howard Northrop. Among people deceased in 1940, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 8. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, Neville Chamberlain, and J. J. Thomson. After him are Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, Peter Behrens, Arthur Harden, and Emma Goldman.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 20 out of 1,365. Before him are Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942). After him are Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Élie Metchnikoff (1845).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Mikhail Bulgakov ranks 6. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Joseph Conrad (1857), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), and Stanisław Lem (1921). After him are Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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